Carbon People

I was just an ordinary citizen. But after more than forty years, I realized that my body had never aged. I had kept the body of a 20-year-old the whole time. This seemed stranger and stranger to me. Was I immortal? One day, I tried cutting a deep gash in my own arm, but the wound healed immediately. It terrified me. So, on the day I discovered this, with my younger sister's help, I decided to run away from home. I was afraid someone would discover me and take me away for experiments. But not long after I hid deep in the mountains, a mysterious woman dressed in a black robe found me. She showed me my home planet from a spaceship. Then she told me that I had already become immortal, and that I was the only person to have succeeded. More than ten thousand people had failed before me, and all of them had died. Since I was the only successful experimental subject, she was going to take me away. What will happen to me next..

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.